EP2757559A1 - Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Codierung räumlicher Audioobjekte mittels versteckter Objekte zur Signalmixmanipulierung - Google Patents

Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Codierung räumlicher Audioobjekte mittels versteckter Objekte zur Signalmixmanipulierung Download PDF

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EP2757559A1
EP2757559A1 EP20130152197 EP13152197A EP2757559A1 EP 2757559 A1 EP2757559 A1 EP 2757559A1 EP 20130152197 EP20130152197 EP 20130152197 EP 13152197 A EP13152197 A EP 13152197A EP 2757559 A1 EP2757559 A1 EP 2757559A1
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Falko Ridderbusch
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  • the present invention relates to audio signal processing and, in particular, to a decoder, an encoder, a system, methods and a computer program for spatial audio object coding employing hidden objects for signal mixture manipulation.
  • parametric techniques for bitrate-efficient transmission and/or storage of audio scenes containing multiple audio objects have been proposed in the field of audio coding [BCC, JSC, SAOC, SAOC1, SAOC2] and, moreover, in the field of informed source separation [ISS1, ISS2, ISS3, ISS4, ISS5, ISS6].
  • These techniques aim at reconstructing a desired output audio scene or a desired audio source object on the basis of additional side information describing the transmitted and/or stored audio scene and/or the audio source objects in the audio scene.
  • MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
  • SAOC Spatial Audio Object Coding
  • downmix signal(s) and side information may be transmitted and/or stored.
  • the downmix audio signal may be encoded, e.g. compressed, by a state-of-the-art perceptual audio coder 920, such as an MPEG-1 Layer II or III (also known as mp3) audio coder or an MPEG Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio coder, etc.
  • a state-of-the-art perceptual audio coder 920 such as an MPEG-1 Layer II or III (also known as mp3) audio coder or an MPEG Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio coder, etc.
  • the encoded signals may, at first, be decoded, e.g., by a state-of-the-art perceptual audio decoder 940, such as an MPEG-1 Layer II or III audio decoder, an MPEG Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio decoder.
  • a state-of-the-art perceptual audio decoder 940 such as an MPEG-1 Layer II or III audio decoder, an MPEG Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio decoder.
  • AAC MPEG Advanced Audio Coding
  • a state-of-the-art SAOC decoder 950 conceptually tries to restore the original object signals, e.g., by conducting "object separation", from the (decoded) downmix signals using the transmitted side information which, e.g., may have been generated by a side information estimator 914 of a SAOC encoder 910, as explained above.
  • the SAOC decoder 950 comprises an object separator 952, e.g. a virtual object separator.
  • the object separator 952 may then provide the approximated object signals ⁇ 1 ,..., ⁇ n to a renderer 954 of the SAOC decoder 950, wherein the renderer 954 then mixes the approximated object signals ⁇ 1 ,..., ⁇ n into a target scene represented by M audio output channels ⁇ 1 ,..., ⁇ M , for example, by employing a rendering matrix.
  • the coefficients r 1,1 ... r N,M in Fig. 11 may, e.g., indicate some of the coefficients of the rendering matrix.
  • the desired target scene may, in a special case, be the rendering of only one source signal out of the mixture (source separation scenario), but may also be any other arbitrary acoustic scene.
  • a prominent example, which violates this assumption, is the usage of an audio coder in the processing chain to reduce the amount of data to be stored and/or transmitted for efficiently carrying the downmix signals.
  • the signal compression perceptually alters the downmix signals. This has the effect that the performance of the object separator in the decoding system decreases and thus the perceived quality of the rendered target scene decreases as well [ISS5, ISS6].
  • the object of the present invention is to provide improved concepts for audio encoding and decoding.
  • the object of the present invention is solved by an apparatus according to claim 1, by an apparatus according to claim 9, by a system according to claim 16, by a method according to claim 17, by a method according to claim 18 and by a computer program according to claim 19.
  • the apparatus comprises a downmixer for downmixing the one or more audio objects to obtain one or more unprocessed downmix signals. Moreover, the apparatus comprises a processing module for processing the one or more unprocessed downmix signals to obtain one or more processed downmix signals. Furthermore, the apparatus comprises a signal calculator for calculating one or more additional signals, wherein the signal calculator is configured to calculate each of the one or more additional signals based on a difference between one of the one or more processed downmix signals and one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals. Moreover, the apparatus comprises an object information generator for generating parametric audio object information for the one or more audio objects and additional parametric information for the additional signal. Furthermore, the apparatus comprises an output interface for outputting the encoded signal, the encoded signal comprising the parametric audio object information for the one or more audio objects and the additional parametric information for the one or more additional signals.
  • the processing module may be configured to process the one or more unprocessed downmix signals by encoding the one or more unprocessed downmix signals to obtain the one or more processed downmix signals.
  • the signal calculator may comprise a decoding unit and a combiner.
  • the decoding unit may be configured to decode the one or more processed downmix signals to obtain one or more decoded signals.
  • the combiner may be configured to generate each of the one or more additional signals by generating a difference signal between one of the one or more decoded signals and one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals.
  • each of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals may comprise a plurality of first signal samples, each of the first signal samples being assigned to one of a plurality of points-in-time.
  • Each of the one or more decoded signals may comprise a plurality of second signal samples, each of the second signal samples being assigned to one of the plurality of points-in-time.
  • the signal calculator may furthermore comprise a time alignment unit being configured to time-align one of the one or more decoded signals and one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals, so that one of the first signal samples of said unprocessed downmix signal is assigned to one of the second signal samples of said decoded signal, said first signal sample of said unprocessed downmix signal and said second signal sample of said decoded signal being assigned to the same point-in-time of the plurality of points-in-time.
  • a time alignment unit being configured to time-align one of the one or more decoded signals and one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals, so that one of the first signal samples of said unprocessed downmix signal is assigned to one of the second signal samples of said decoded signal, said first signal sample of said unprocessed downmix signal and said second signal sample of said decoded signal being assigned to the same point-in-time of the plurality of points-in-time.
  • the processing module may be configured to process the one or more unprocessed downmix signals by applying an audio effect on at least one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals to obtain the one or more processed downmix signals.
  • an audio object energy value may be assigned to each one of the one or more audio objects, and an additional energy value may be assigned each one of the one or more additional signals.
  • the object information generator may be configured to determine a reference energy value, so that the reference energy value is greater than or equal to the audio object energy value of each of the one or more audio objects, and so that the reference energy value is greater than or equal to the additional energy value of each of the one or more additional signals.
  • the object information generator may be configured to determine the parametric audio object information by determining an audio object level difference for each audio object of the one or more audio objects, so that said audio object level difference indicates a ratio of the audio object energy value of said audio object to the reference energy value, or so that said audio object level difference indicates a difference between the reference energy value and the audio object energy value of said audio object.
  • the object information generator may be configured to determine the additional object information by determining an additional object level difference for each additional signal of the one or more additional signals, so that said additional object level difference indicates a ratio of the additional energy value of said additional signal to the reference energy value, or so that said additional object level difference indicates a difference between the reference energy value and the additional energy value of said additional signal.
  • the processing module may comprise an acoustic effect module and an encoding module.
  • the acoustic effect module may be configured to apply an acoustic effect on at least one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals to obtain one or more acoustically adjusted downmix signals.
  • the encoding module may be configured to encode the one or more acoustically adjusted downmix signals to obtain the one or more processed signals.
  • an apparatus for decoding an encoded signal comprising parametric audio object information on one or more audio objects, and additional parametric information.
  • the apparatus comprises an interface for receiving one or more processed downmix signals, and for receiving the encoded signal, wherein the additional parametric information reflects a processing performed on one or more unprocessed downmix signals to obtain the one or more processed downmix signals.
  • the apparatus comprises an audio scene generator for generating an audio scene comprising a plurality of spatial audio signals based on the one or more processed downmix signals, the parametric audio object information, the additional parametric information, and rendering information indicating a placement of the one or more audio objects in the audio scene, wherein the audio scene generator is configured to attenuate or eliminate an output signal represented by the additional parametric information in the audio scene.
  • the additional parametric information may depend on one or more additional signals, wherein the additional signals indicate a difference between one of the one or more processed downmix signals and one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals, wherein the one or more unprocessed downmix signals indicate a downmix of the one or more audio signals, and wherein the one or more processed downmix signals result from the processing of the one or more unprocessed downmixed signals.
  • the audio scene generator may comprise an audio object generator and a renderer.
  • the audio object generator may be configured to generate the one or more audio objects based on the one or more processed downmix signals, the parametric audio object information and the additional parametric information.
  • the renderer may be configured to generate the plurality of spatial audio signals of the audio scene based on the one or more audio objects, the parametric audio object information and rendering information.
  • the renderer may be configured to generate the plurality of spatial audio signals of the audio scene based on the one or more audio objects, the additional parametric information, and the rendering information, wherein the renderer may be configured to attenuate or eliminate the output signal represented by the additional parametric information in the audio scene depending on one or more rendering coefficients comprised by the rendering information.
  • the apparatus may further comprise a user interface for setting the one or more rendering coefficients for steering whether the output signal represented by the additional parametric information is attenuated or eliminated in the audio scene.
  • the audio scene generator may be configured to generate the audio scene comprising a plurality of spatial audio signals based on the one or more processed downmix signals, the parametric audio object information, the additional parametric information, and rendering information indicating a placement of the one or more audio objects in the audio scene, wherein the audio scene generator may be configured to not generate the one or more audio objects to generate the audio scene.
  • the apparatus may furthermore comprise an audio decoder for decoding the one or more processed downmix signals to obtain one or more decoded signals, wherein the audio scene generator may be configured to generate the audio scene comprising the plurality of spatial audio signals based on the one or more decoded signals, the parametric audio object information, the additional parametric information, and the rendering information.
  • E i , j ⁇ IOC i , j ⁇ ⁇ OLD i ⁇ ⁇ OLD j ⁇ , wherein E i , j ⁇ is one of the seventh matrix coefficients at row i and column j, i being a row index and j being a column index, wherein IOC i , j ⁇ indicates a cross correlation value, and wherein OLD i ⁇ ⁇ indicates a first energy value, and wherein OLD j ⁇ ⁇ indicates a second energy value.
  • the system comprises an apparatus for encoding according to one of the above-described embodiments, and an apparatus for decoding according to one of the above-described embodiments.
  • the apparatus for encoding is configured to provide one or more processed downmix signals and an encoded signal to the apparatus for decoding, the encoded signal comprising parametric audio object information for one or more audio objects and additional parametric information for one or more additional signals.
  • the apparatus for decoding is configured to generate an audio scene comprising a plurality of spatial audio signals based on the parametric audio object information, the additional parametric information, and rendering information indicating a placement of the one or more audio objects in the audio scene.
  • a method for encoding one or more audio objects to obtain an encoded signal comprises:
  • a method for decoding an encoded signal, the encoded signal comprising parametric audio object information on one or more audio objects, and additional parametric information comprises:
  • concepts of parametric object coding are improved/extended by providing alterations/manipulations of the source object or mixture signals as additional hidden objects. Including these hidden objects in the side info estimation process and in the (virtual) object separation results in an improved perceptual quality of the rendered acoustic scene.
  • the hidden objects can, e.g., describe artificially generated signals like the coding error signal from a perceptual audio coder that are applied to the downmix signals, but can, e.g., also be a description of other non-linear processing that is applied to the downmix signals, for example, reverberation.
  • these hidden objects are primarily not intended to be rendered at the decoding side, but used to improve the (virtual) object separation process and thus improving the perceived quality of the rendered acoustic scene. This is achieved by rendering the hidden object(s) with a reproduction level of zero ("muting"). In this way, the rendering process in the decoder is automatically controlled such that it tends to suppress the undesired components represented by the hidden object(s) and thus improve the subjective quality of the rendered scene/signal.
  • the encoding module may be a perceptual audio encoder.
  • the provided concepts are inter alia advantageous as they are able to provide an improvement in audio quality by including hidden object information in a fully decoder-compatible way.
  • additional parametric information may, for example, represent one or more hidden objects.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates an apparatus for encoding one or more audio objects to obtain an encoded signal according to an embodiment.
  • the apparatus comprises a downmixer 110 for downmixing the one or more audio objects to obtain one or more unprocessed downmix signals.
  • the downmixer of Fig. 1 receives the one or more audio objects and downmixes them, e.g. by applying a downmix matrix to obtain the one of more unprocessed downmix signals.
  • the apparatus comprises a processing module 120 for processing the one or more unprocessed downmix signals to obtain one or more processed downmix signals.
  • the processing module 120 receives the one or more unprocessed downmix signals from the down mixer and processes them to obtain the one or more processed signals.
  • the processing module 120 may be an encoding module, e.g. a perceptual encoder, and may be configured to process the one or more unprocessed downmix signals by encoding the one or more unprocessed downmix signals to obtain the one or more processed downmix signals.
  • the processing module 120 may, for example, be a perceptual audio encoder, e.g., an MPEG-1 Layer II or III (also known as mp3) audio coder or an MPEG Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio coder, etc.
  • the processing module 120 may be an audio effect module and may be configured to process the one or more unprocessed downmix signals by applying an audio effect on at least one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals to obtain the one or more processed downmix signals.
  • the apparatus comprises a signal calculator 130 for calculating one or more additional signals.
  • the signal calculator 130 is configured to calculate each of the one or more additional signals based on a difference between one of the one or more processed downmix signals and one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals.
  • the signal calculator 130 may, for example, calculate a difference signal between one of the one or more processed downmix signals and one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals to generate the one of the one or more additional signals.
  • the signal calculator 130 may, instead of determining a difference signal, determine any other kind of difference between said one of the one or more processed downmix signals and said one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals to generate the one of the one or more additional signals. The signal calculator 130 may then calculate an additional signal based on the determined difference between the two signals.
  • the apparatus comprises an object information generator 140 for generating parametric audio object information for the one or more audio objects and additional parametric information for the additional signal.
  • an audio object energy value may be assigned to each one of the one or more audio objects, and an additional energy value may be assigned each one of the one or more additional signals.
  • the object information generator 140 may be configured to determine a reference energy value, so that the reference energy value is greater than or equal to the audio object energy value of each of the one or more audio objects, and so that the reference energy value is greater than or equal to the additional energy value of each of the one or more additional signals.
  • the object information generator 140 may be configured to determine the parametric audio object information by determining an audio object level difference for each audio object of the one or more audio objects, so that said audio object level difference indicates a ratio of the audio object energy value of said audio object to the reference energy value, or so that said audio object level difference indicates a difference between the reference energy value and the audio object energy value of said audio object.
  • the object information generator 140 may be configured to determine the additional object information by determining an additional object level difference for each additional signal of the one or more additional signals, so that said additional object level difference indicates a ratio of the additional energy value of said additional signal to the reference energy value, or so that said additional object level difference indicates a difference between the reference energy value and the additional energy value of said additional signal.
  • the audio object energy value of each of the audio objects may be passed to the object information generator 140 as side information.
  • the energy value of each of the additional signals may also be passed to the object information generator 140 as side information.
  • the object information generator 140 may itself calculate the energy values of each of the additional signals, for example, by squaring each of the sample values of one of the additional signals, by summing up said sample values to obtain an intermediate result, and be calculating the square root of the intermediate result to obtain the energy value of said additional signal.
  • the object information generator 140 may then, for example, determine the greatest energy value of all audio objects and all additional signals as the reference energy value.
  • the object information generator 140 may then e.g. determine the ratio of the additional energy value of an additional signal and the reference energy value as the additional object level difference. For example, if an additional energy value is 3.0 and the reference energy value is 6.0, then the additional object level difference is 0.5.
  • the object information generator 140 may e.g. determine the difference of the reference energy value and the additional energy value of an additional signal as the additional object level difference. For example, if an additional energy value is 7.0 and the reference energy value is 10.0, then the additional object level difference is 3.0. Calculating the additional object level difference by determining the difference is particularly suitable, if the energy values are expressed with respect to a logarithmic scale.
  • the parametric information may also comprise information on an Inter-Object Coherence between spatial audio objects and/or hidden objects.
  • the apparatus comprises an output interface 150 for outputting the encoded signal.
  • the encoded signal comprises the parametric audio object information for the one or more audio objects and the additional parametric information for the one or more additional signals.
  • the output interface 150 may be configured to generate the encoded signal such that the encoded signal comprises the parametric audio object information for the one or more audio objects and the additional parametric information for the one or more additional signals.
  • the object information generator 140 may already generate the encoded signal such that the encoded signal comprises the parametric audio object information for the one or more audio objects and the additional parametric information for the one or more additional signals and passes the encoded signal to output interface 150.
  • Fig. 2 illustrates an apparatus for encoding one or more audio objects to obtain an encoded signal according to another embodiment.
  • the processing module 120 is configured to process the one or more unprocessed downmix signals by encoding the one or more unprocessed downmix signals to obtain the one or more processed downmix signals.
  • the signal calculator 130 of Fig. 2 comprises a decoding unit 240 and a combiner 250.
  • the decoding unit 240 is configured to decode the one or more processed downmix signals to obtain one or more decoded signals.
  • the combiner 250 is configured to generate each of the one or more additional signals by generating a difference signal between one of the one or more decoded signals and one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals.
  • Embodiments are based on the finding that after spatial audio objects have been downmixed, the resulting downmix signals may be (unintentionally or intentionally) modified by a subsequent processing module.
  • a side information generator which encodes information on the modifications of the downmix signals as hidden object side information, e.g. as hidden objects, such effects can either be removed when reconstructing the spatial audio objects (in particular, when the modifications of the downmix signals were unintentionally), or it can be decided, to what degree/to what amount the (intentional) modifications of the downmix signals shall be rendered, when generating audio channels from the reconstructed spatial audio objects.
  • the decoding unit 240 already generates one or more decoded signals on the encoder side so that the one or more decoded signals can be compared with the one or more unprocessed downmix signals to determine a difference caused by the encoding conducted by the processing module 120,
  • Fig. 3 illustrates an apparatus for encoding one or more audio objects to obtain an encoded signal according to a further embodiment.
  • Each of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals may comprise a plurality of first signal samples, each of the first signal samples being assigned to one of a plurality of points-in-time.
  • Each of the one or more decoded signals may comprise a plurality of second signal samples, each of the second signal samples being assigned to one of the plurality of points-in-time.
  • the embodiment of Fig. 3 differs from the embodiment of Fig. 2 in that the signal calculator furthermore comprises a time alignment unit 345 being configured to time-align one of the one or more decoded signals and one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals, so that one of the first signal samples of said unprocessed downmix signal is assigned to one of the second signal samples of said decoded signal, said first signal sample of said unprocessed downmix signal and said second signal sample of said decoded signal being assigned to the same point-in-time of the plurality of points-in-time.
  • a time alignment unit 345 being configured to time-align one of the one or more decoded signals and one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals, so that one of the first signal samples of said unprocessed downmix signal is assigned to one of the second signal samples of said decoded signal, said first signal sample of said unprocessed downmix signal and said second signal sample of said decoded signal being assigned to the same point-in-time of the plurality
  • the unprocessed downmix signals and the decoded downmix signals should be aligned in time to compare them and to determine differences between them, respectively.
  • Fig. 4 illustrates an apparatus for encoding one or more audio objects to obtain an encoded signal according to another embodiment.
  • Fig. 4 illustrates apparatus for encoding one or more audio objects by generating additional parameter information which parameterizes the one or more additional signals (e.g. one or more coding error signals) by additional parameters.
  • additional parameters may be referred to as "hidden objects", as on a decoder side, they may be hidden to a user.
  • the apparatus of Fig. 4 comprises a mixer 110 (a downmixer), an audio encoder as the processing module 120 a signal calculator 130 and an object information generator 140 (which may also be referred to as side information estimator).
  • the signal calculator 130 is indicated by dashed lines and comprises a decoding unit 240 ("audio decoder"), a time alignment unit 345 and a combiner 250.
  • the combiner 250 may, e.g., form at least one difference, e.g. at least one difference signal, between at least one of the (time-aligned) downmix signals and at least one of the (time-aligned) encoded signals.
  • the mixer 110 and the side information estimator 260 may be comprised by a SAOC encoder module.
  • Perceptual audio codecs produce signal alterations of the downmix signals which can be described by a coding noise signal.
  • This coding noise signal can cause perceivable signal degradations when using the flexible rendering capabilities at the decoding side [ISS5, ISS6].
  • the coding noise can be described as a hidden object that is not intended to be rendered at the decoding side. It can be parameterized similar to the "real" source object signals.
  • Fig. 5 illustrates a processing module 120 of an apparatus for encoding according to an embodiment.
  • the processing module 120 comprises an acoustic effect module 122 and an encoding module 121.
  • the acoustic effect module 122 is configured to apply an acoustic effect on at least one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals to obtain one or more acoustically adjusted downmix signals.
  • the encoding module 121 is configured to encode the one or more acoustically adjusted downmix signals to obtain the one or more processed signals.
  • the signals points A and C may be fed into the object information generator 140.
  • the object information generator can determine the effect of the acoustic effect module 122 and the encoding module 121 on the unprocessed downmix signal and can generate according additional parametric information to represent that effect.
  • the signal at point B may also be fed into the object information generator 140.
  • the object information generator 140 can determine the individual effect of the acoustic effect module 122 on the unprocessed downmix signal by taking the signals at A and B into account. This can e.g. be realized by forming difference signals between the signals at A and the signals at B
  • the object information generator 140 can determine the individual effect of the encoding module 121 by taking the signals at B and C into account. This can be realized, e.g., by decoding the signals at point C and by forming difference signals between these decoded signals and the signals at B.
  • Fig. 6 illustrates an apparatus for decoding an encoded signal according to an embodiment.
  • the encoded signal comprises parametric audio object information on one or more audio objects, and additional parametric information.
  • the apparatus comprises an interface 210 for receiving one or more processed downmix signals, and for receiving the encoded signal.
  • the additional parametric information reflects a processing performed on one or more unprocessed downmix signals to obtain the one or more processed downmix signals.
  • the apparatus comprises an audio scene generator 220 for generating an audio scene comprising a plurality of spatial audio signals based on the one or more processed downmix signals, the parametric audio object information, the additional parametric information, and rendering information.
  • the rendering information indicates a placement of the one or more audio objects in the audio scene.
  • the audio scene generator 220 is configured to attenuate or eliminate an output signal represented by the additional parametric information in the audio scene.
  • SAOC spatial audio object coding
  • the interface is moreover configured to receive additional parametric information which reflects a processing performed on one or more unprocessed downmix signals to obtain the one or more processed downmix signals.
  • the additional parametric information reflects the processing as e.g. conducted by an apparatus for encoding according to Fig. 1 .
  • the additional parametric information may depend on one or more additional signals, wherein the additional signals indicate a difference between one of the one or more processed downmix signals and one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals, wherein the one or more unprocessed downmix signals indicate a downmix of the one or more audio signals, and wherein the one or more processed downmix signals result from the processing of the one or more unprocessed downmixed signals.
  • the apparatus for decoding according to the embodiment of Fig. 6 uses the additional parametric information of the encoded signal. This allows the apparatus for decoding to undo or to partially undo the processing conducted by the processing module 120 of the apparatus for encoding according to Fig. 1 .
  • the additional parametric information may, for example, indicate a difference signal between one of the unprocessed downmix signals of Fig. 1 and one of the processed downmix signals of Fig. 1 .
  • a difference signal may be considered as an output signal of the audio scene.
  • each of the processed downmix signals may be considered as a combination of one of the unprocessed downmix signals and a difference signal.
  • the audio scene generator 220 may then, for example, be configured to attenuate or eliminate this output signal in the audio scene, so that only the unprocessed downmix signal is replayed, or so that the unprocessed downmix signal is replayed and the difference signal is only partially be replayed, e.g. depending on the rendering information.
  • Fig. 7 illustrates an apparatus for decoding an encoded signal according to another embodiment.
  • the audio scene generator 220 comprises an audio object generator 610 and a renderer 620.
  • the audio object generator 610 is configured to generate the one or more audio objects based on the one or more processed downmix signals, the parametric audio object information and the additional parametric information.
  • the renderer 620 is configured to generate the plurality of spatial audio signals of the audio scene based on the one or more audio objects, the parametric audio object information and rendering information.
  • the renderer 620 may, for example, be configured to generate the plurality of spatial audio signals of the audio scene based on the one or more audio objects, the additional parametric information, and the rendering information, wherein the renderer 620 may be configured to attenuate or eliminate the output signal represented by the additional parametric information in the audio scene depending on one or more rendering coefficients comprised by the rendering information.
  • Fig. 8 illustrates an apparatus for decoding an encoded signal according to a further embodiment.
  • the apparatus furthermore comprises a user interface 710 for setting the one or more rendering coefficients for steering whether the output signal represented by the additional parametric information is attenuated or eliminated in the audio scene.
  • the user interface may enable the user to set one of the rendering coefficients to 0.5 indicating that an output signal represented by the additional parametric information is partially suppressed.
  • the user interface may enable the user to set one of the rendering coefficients to 0 indicating that an output signal represented by the additional parametric information is completely suppressed.
  • the user interface may enable the user to set one of the rendering coefficients to 1 indicating that an output signal represented by the additional parametric information is not suppressed at all.
  • the audio scene generator 220 may be configured to generate the audio scene comprising a plurality of spatial audio signals based on the one or more processed downmix signals, the parametric audio object information, the additional parametric information, and rendering information indicating a placement of the one or more audio objects in the audio scene, wherein the audio scene generator may be configured to not generate the one or more audio objects to generate the audio scene.
  • Fig. 9 illustrates an apparatus for decoding an encoded signal according to another embodiment.
  • the apparatus furthermore comprises an audio decoder 510 for decoding the one or more processed downmix signals (referred to as "encoded downmix”) to obtain one or more decoded signals, wherein the audio scene generator is configured to generate the audio scene comprising the plurality of spatial audio signals based on the one or more decoded signals, the parametric audio object information, the additional parametric information, and the rendering information.
  • an audio decoder 510 for decoding the one or more processed downmix signals (referred to as "encoded downmix") to obtain one or more decoded signals
  • the audio scene generator is configured to generate the audio scene comprising the plurality of spatial audio signals based on the one or more decoded signals, the parametric audio object information, the additional parametric information, and the rendering information.
  • the apparatus moreover comprises an audio decoder 510 for decoding the one or more processed downmix signals, which are fed from the interface (not shown) into the decoder 510.
  • the resulting decoded signals are then fed into the audio object generator (in Fig. 9 referred to as virtual object separator 520) of an audio scene generator 220, which is, in the embodiment of Fig. 9 a SAOC decoder.
  • the audio scene generator 220 furthermore comprises the renderer 530.
  • Fig. 9 illustrates a corresponding SAOC decoding/rendering with hidden object suppression according to an embodiment.
  • the additional side information e.g. of the encoder of Fig. 4
  • the decoding side e.g. by the decoder of Fig. 9
  • this can be done as follows:
  • the second and third step may preferably be carried out in a single efficient transcoding process.
  • the hidden audio object concept can also be utilized to undo or control certain audio effects at the decoder side which are applied to the signal mixture at the encoder side.
  • Any effect applied on the downmix channels can cause a degradation of the object separation process at the decoder. Cancelling this effect, e.g. undoing the applied audio effect, from the downmix signals on the decoding side improves the performance of the separation step and thus improves the perceived quality of the rendered acoustic scene.
  • the amount of effect that appears in the rendered audio output can be controlled by controlling the rendering level of the hidden object in the SAOC decoder.
  • Rendering the hidden object (which is represented by the additional parametric information) with a level of zero results in almost total suppression of the applied effect in the rendered output signal.
  • Rendering the hidden object with a low level results in a low level of the applied effect in the rendered output signal.
  • application of a reverberator to the downmix channels can be undone by transmitting a parameterized version of the reverberation as a hidden (effects) object and applying regular SAOC decoding rendering with a reproduction level of zero for the hidden (effects) object.
  • the processed and time-aligned downmix signals x' 1 ... x' P are subtracted from the unprocessed (original) downmix signals x 1 ... x P , resulting in the reverberation signals q 1 ... qp (effect signals).
  • effect signals q 1 ... q P and the effect signal mixing parameters d q,1 ... d q,P are provided to the object analysis part of the SAOC encoder resulting in the parameter info of the additional (hidden) effect object.
  • a parameterized description of the effect signal is derived and added as additional hidden (effects) object info to the side info generated by the SAOC side info estimator resulting in an enriched side info transmitted/stored.
  • the hidden object information is incorporated as additional object in the (virtual) object separation process.
  • the hidden object (effect signal) is treated the same way as a "regular" audio source object.
  • Each of the N audio objects is separated out of the mixture by suppressing the N-1 interfering source signals and the effect signals q 1 ... q P . This results in an improved estimation of the original audio object signals compared to the case when only the regular (non-hidden) audio source objects are considered in this step. Additionally, an estimation of the reverberation signal can be computed in the same way.
  • the desired acoustic target scene is generated by rendering the improved audio source estimations ⁇ 1 ,..., ⁇ n by multiplying the estimated audio object signals with the according rendering coefficients.
  • the hidden object (reverberation signal) can be almost totally suppressed (by rendering the reverberation signal with a level of zero) or, if desired, applied with a certain level by setting the rendering level of the hidden (effects) object accordingly.
  • the audio object generator 520 may pass information on the hidden object ⁇ to the renderer 530.
  • the audio object generator 520 uses the hidden object side information for two purposes:
  • the audio object generator 520 passes the hidden object side information that comprises information about the encoder-side (e.g. intentional) modifications of the downmix signals x 1 , ..., x p to the renderer 530, e.g. as a hidden object ⁇ which the audio object renderer may receive as the hidden object side information.
  • the hidden object side information comprises information about the encoder-side (e.g. intentional) modifications of the downmix signals x 1 , ..., x p to the renderer 530, e.g. as a hidden object ⁇ which the audio object renderer may receive as the hidden object side information.
  • the renderer 530 may then control whether or not the received hidden object h is rendered in the sound scene.
  • the renderer 530 may moreover be configured to control the amount of the audio effect in the one or more audio channels depending on a rendering level of the audio effect.
  • the renderer 530 may receive control information which provides a rendering level of the audio effect.
  • the renderer 530 may be configurable to control the amount of such that a rendering level of the one or more combination signals is configurable.
  • the rendering level may indicate to which degree the renderer 530 renders the combination signals, e.g. the difference signals that represent the acoustic effect applied on the encoder-side, being indicated by the hidden object side information.
  • a rendering level of 0 may indicate that the combination signals are completely suppressed
  • a rendering level of 1 may indicate that the combination signals are not at all suppressed.
  • a rendering level s with 0 ⁇ s ⁇ 1 may indicate that the combination signals are partially suppressed.
  • estimation with using hidden object side information e.g. estimation of the object source s 1 , ..., s N under consideration of downmix alterations as hidden objects according to an embodiment is considered.
  • cross-correlation between original sources and hidden objects can be for most cases assumed to be zero and had not to be computed, D' downmix matrix of size M times (N+P), describing mixing coefficients of the original sources and hidden objects, which are 1 for default for the hidden objects (e.g. the downmix related information), ⁇ ' matrix of estimated original audio object and hidden object signals of size (N+P), R' rendering matrix of size M times (N+P).
  • rendering the hidden object with a low level results in a low level of the hidden object (e.g. reverb) in the rendered output signal.
  • a low level of the hidden object e.g. reverb
  • Fig. 10 illustrates a system according to an embodiment.
  • the system comprises an apparatus for encoding one or more audio objects 810 according to one of the above-described embodiments, and an apparatus for decoding an encoded signal 820 according to one of the above-described embodiments.
  • the apparatus for encoding 810 is configured to provide one or more processed downmix signals and an encoded signal to the apparatus for decoding 820, the encoded signal comprising parametric audio object information for one or more audio objects and additional parametric information for one or more additional signals.
  • the apparatus for decoding 820 is configured to generate an audio scene comprising a plurality of spatial audio signals based on the parametric audio object information, the additional parametric information, and rendering information indicating a placement of the one or more audio objects in the audio scene.
  • aspects have been described in the context of an apparatus, it is clear that these aspects also represent a description of the corresponding method, where a block or device corresponds to a method step or a feature of a method step. Analogously, aspects described in the context of a method step also represent a description of a corresponding block or item or feature of a corresponding apparatus.
  • the inventive decomposed signal can be stored on a digital storage medium or can be transmitted on a transmission medium such as a wireless transmission medium or a wired transmission medium such as the Internet.
  • embodiments of the invention can be implemented in hardware or in software.
  • the implementation can be performed using a digital storage medium, for example a floppy disk, a DVD, a CD, a ROM, a PROM, an EPROM, an EEPROM or a FLASH memory, having electronically readable control signals stored thereon, which cooperate (or are capable of cooperating) with a programmable computer system such that the respective method is performed.
  • a digital storage medium for example a floppy disk, a DVD, a CD, a ROM, a PROM, an EPROM, an EEPROM or a FLASH memory, having electronically readable control signals stored thereon, which cooperate (or are capable of cooperating) with a programmable computer system such that the respective method is performed.
  • Some embodiments according to the invention comprise a non-transitory data carrier having electronically readable control signals, which are capable of cooperating with a programmable computer system, such that one of the methods described herein is performed.
  • embodiments of the present invention can be implemented as a computer program product with a program code, the program code being operative for performing one of the methods when the computer program product runs on a computer.
  • the program code may for example be stored on a machine readable carrier.
  • inventions comprise the computer program for performing one of the methods described herein, stored on a machine readable carrier.
  • an embodiment of the inventive method is, therefore, a computer program having a program code for performing one of the methods described herein, when the computer program runs on a computer.
  • a further embodiment of the inventive methods is, therefore, a data carrier (or a digital storage medium, or a computer-readable medium) comprising, recorded thereon, the computer program for performing one of the methods described herein.
  • a further embodiment of the inventive method is, therefore, a data stream or a sequence of signals representing the computer program for performing one of the methods described herein.
  • the data stream or the sequence of signals may for example be configured to be transferred via a data communication connection, for example via the Internet.
  • a further embodiment comprises a processing means, for example a computer, or a programmable logic device, configured to or adapted to perform one of the methods described herein.
  • a processing means for example a computer, or a programmable logic device, configured to or adapted to perform one of the methods described herein.
  • a further embodiment comprises a computer having installed thereon the computer program for performing one of the methods described herein.
  • a programmable logic device for example a field programmable gate array
  • a field programmable gate array may cooperate with a microprocessor in order to perform one of the methods described herein.
  • the methods are preferably performed by any hardware apparatus.

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